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You could short the underlying equity to lock in your profit and benefit further in case of an extreme decline

There is no option to run multicharts under Analytical tools in my TWS and I am running the latest release. Do I have to download something first?

you mean like a double calendar?

I love the return graphs - wish I could get them from IB.

Thank you for the entry prices - Does your system pick these 10 trades independent of each other or does it use expected correlations to make it profitable? ( sorry for all the questions i've recently been using a lot of ratio spreads and have had really good luck with them but yours seem to be...

Also do you have graphs showing your return vs the price of the underlying? I can't figure wether you a rooting for a up or down movement.

BAC and F .

Could you post your entry prices?

What expiration?

I want to close a short option position for a contract that has no bid and an ask of .15 so I put in a bid of .05 on 5 contracts and all of a sudden there are offers for 300 contracts at .05 -- this has happened to me many times ( the sudden appearance of offers where there was none after I make...

I can't see why IB can't make their auto liquidation a little more intelligent at least in the case of ditm put spreads - maybe I'll make it a suggestion.

LIBOR?

I put in a trouble ticket on this and finally got a response today. They basically said "tough luck" but in allot more words.

Are the new IB SMART routed option commission prices better or worse for the small (.75 per ) investor?

Found this in a google search if anyone is interested. http://www.irs.gov/irb/2004-03_IRB/ar08.html Explanation of Provisions Section 6045(a) of the Internal Revenue Code (Code) provides that every person doing business as a broker shall, when required by the Secretary, make a return...

Well at least E*Trade has some info (tho they don't address div's that are supposed to be tax free) IB has no info on their web site that I can locate.

I got a payment in lieu of dividend for tax free closed end fund shares. Will this be accounted for correctly on my year end IB IRS statement?

I am not doing any calculations - I'm looking and the bid and ask on my TWS screen . Why is it so hard to believe there is an imbalance of buyers and sellers? The part part of my question I'm really interested in an answer for is with Portfolio margin how many of these could I have bought since...

As I understand it theses opportunities do arise from time to time - the trade I was looking at( and ultimately made) was a sept 33 reversal on XLF - the puts were clearly mis priced( even by IB modeling software). I think the uncertainty over the Fed is causing this situation.

Many prominent politicians use this strategy without harming their reputations.